1972 United States Senate election in Colorado

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1972 United States Senate election in Colorado
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  1966 November 7, 1972 1978  
  FloydHaskell.jpg Gordon L Allott.jpg
Nominee Floyd Haskell Gordon Allott
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote457,545447,957
Percentage49.41%48.37%

1972 United States Senate election in Colorado results map by county.svg
County results
Haskell:      40–50%     50–60%     60–70%
Allott:      40–50%     50–60%     60–70%

U.S. senator before election

Gordon Allott
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Floyd Haskell
Democratic

The 1972 United States Senate election in Colorado took place on November 7, 1972. Republican candidate and Incumbent United States Senator Gordon Allott ran for re-election to a fourth term, but was narrowly defeated by Democratic candidate and former State Representative Floyd Haskell. This would be the last time until 2008 that a Democrat was elected to the Class 2 Senate seat from Colorado. Colorado was one of fifteen states alongside Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota and West Virginia that were won by Republican president Richard Nixon in 1972 that elected Democrats to the United States Senate.

Contents

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results

Floyd Haskell, a former State Representative who had served as a Republican from 1965 to 1967, but had left the party in 1970 over opposition to the Vietnam War, won the primary.

1972 Democratic U.S. Senate primary [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Floyd Haskell 77,574 58.83%
Democratic Anthony Vollack 54,29841.18%
Total votes131,872 100.00%

General election

Results

General election results [2] [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Floyd Haskell 457,545 49.41% Increase2.svg7.48
Republican Gordon Allott (incumbent)447,95748.37%Decrease2.svg9.65
Raza Unida Secundino Salazar13,2281.43%N/A
American Henry John Olshaw7,3530.79%N/A
Total votes926,083 100.00% N/A
Democratic gain from Republican

See also

References

  1. "Our Campaigns - CO US Senate - R Primary Race - Aug 14, 1978".
  2. "Our Campaigns - CO US Senate Race - Nov 07, 1972".
  3. Clerk of the United States House of Representatives (1973). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1972" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office.